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    Child killer asks judge for execution date

    A man sentenced to death for the murder of a five-year-old boy is once again saying he's ready to die.

    An execution date had been set for Larry Hatten two years ago but he filed an appeal. Now, Hatten has sent two letters to Judge Missy Medary asking that she waive all his appeals and set an execution date. In the first letter, he asks that an execution date be set no later than three months from when the court received his written request. He doesn't give a reason for his request but in that first letter he states he does not want to appear in court.

    In a second letter sent last week, 42-year-old Hatten says he will do whatever the court requires, as long as he gets an execution date.

    In 1995, Hatten shot and killed five-year-old Isaac Jackson on Sam Rankin Street while the boy was in bed with his mother.

    http://www.kristv.com/story/35168435...execution-date
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    Man sentenced to death to appear in court 22 years later

    Larry Hatten was 21 years old when he broke into a woman's home, wounding her and killing her five-year-old boy in 1995. He was sentenced to death.

    On Tuesday, after nearly 22 years of waiting for a date to be set, family of the victims spoke with Kiii News Anchor Rudy Trevino about the case.

    Five-year-old Isaac Charles Jackson was killed in a barrage of bullets on the night of Sept. 19, 1995. The home on Sam Rankin was riddled with bullets meant for Jackson's mother, Tabatha Thompson.

    The Jackson family was in court Tuesday to hear Judge Missy Medary order Hatten be returned to court. The judge also read a letter received from Hatten.

    At issue is Hatten's indecisiveness. He has sent the court several letters over the years, some asking that all appeals be dropped and several others asking the court to continue the appeal process. His attorney, Ben Wolf, told the judge his client has issues.

    "He's seriously mentally ill, and he has a 21-year history of being treated for paranoid schizophrenia by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice," Wolf said.

    Outside the courtroom, the victim's sister questioned Hatten's mental issues.

    "One minute he's ready for the death penalty and if you ask me, its to buy his time to get out to see his family," Lashonn Devones said.

    A hearing date has been set for the end of May in the 347th District Court. Along with Hatten's appearance, his attorney said he expects to present at least a half-dozen witnesses including a former psychiatrist that evaluated Hatten.

    For the family of the victims, who've remained silent for 21 years, they hope this will be the last time they have to come to court.

    http://www.kiiitv.com/news/local/man...ater/434111664
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    The courts should be getting close to making a decision on this guy.

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    March 22, 2019

    Here's why this Nueces County man is still on death row more than two decades later

    By Eleanor Dearman
    The Corpus Christi Caller-Times

    The family of a 5-year-old boy killed in the '90s gathered in a Nueces County courtroom Friday. It was a more than two-decade-old court filing that brought them there.

    That filing could be the difference between Larry Hatten getting an execution date — something he has asked for in letters to the court — and him getting a new trial.

    In 1996, Hatten was given the death penalty for the 1995 fatal shooting of 5-year-old Isaac Jackson. His case was back in the 347th district court Friday for arguments on the filing from 1997.

    As Hatten sits behind bars, Jackson's family sat and listened to attorneys in the Nueces County courtroom. For years, they've gone to court proceedings as the case made its way through the trial court and the appellate court system.

    There's a chance Hatten — who has been on death row longer than any offender from Nueces County — could get a new trial. Whether or not that happens remains to be seen.

    THE COURT ACTION

    Hatten was accused of breaking into the home of Tabatha Thompson and firing six shots into the bed where she and her son were sleeping. During his trial in 1996, Hatten said he intended to shoot Isaac Robinson, who lived with Thompson.

    Hatten believed the man was involved in setting his brother’s car on fire, according to previous Caller-Times reports. It was after the shooting he realized Robinson wasn’t the person struck.

    Hatten's 1996 sentence was overturned by a criminal appeals court, but he was sentenced to the death penalty again in 1998.

    Most recently in 2014, he was given an Oct. 15, 2014 execution date. That date was delayed after the discovery of the legal filing from 1997 that claimed his trial lawyers were ineffective.

    The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stopped the execution.

    In recent months, the district court has held hearings on the decades-old filing.

    On Friday, attorneys Ben Wolff, representing Hatten, and Nueces County Prosecutor Doug Norman presented their arguments on the 1997 filing to Judge Missy Medary. She'll eventually make her recommendation to the appellate court, but that isn't expected for weeks.

    What's ultimately at stake in the latest court action regarding the filing is whether Hatten gets a new trial. Granting him a new trial is one route the appellate court could take.

    If he isn't granted a new trial and the filing is denied, then prosecutors will likely ask an execution date be set, Norman said. If that happens, Hatten's attorney could ask he be found incompetent to be executed. Hatten's mental health has long been in question.

    Wolff told the court Friday that Hatten had ineffective counsel when first tried.

    "So where did trial counsel go wrong?" he said. "The snapshot is they failed to get an investigator. They failed to spend remotely enough time with their client. Failed to investigate his mental health, and failed to retain an expert."

    He said Hatten was indicted just days after the offense in September 1995 and the trial began in Jan. 3, 1996. Wolf argued the attorneys didn't investigate the case thoroughly or spend enough time with their client.

    Hatten testified over the course of two days during his trial, Wolff said, noting the rarity of a defendant taking the stand in a death penalty case.

    "There's not, you know, a stopwatch for that portion of the trial record, but I think it's fair to say he testified for longer than trial counsel met with him at any point during their representation," Wolf said.

    He also pointed out that after the evidence had been presented in the guilt, innocence phase of the trial, Hatten had a psychotic break and was catatonic.

    "You have a due process right to be competent during an entire trial," Wolf said.

    Norman argued the 1997 filing is moot.

    "Specifically, Hatten's original writ sought relief from the particular judgment and death sentence entered on February 8, 1996," a motion briefing Norman's arguments states. "When that sentence was vacated the case was remanded for retrial, there was nothing more to seek relief from on the original writ."

    Norman also said it's Hatten's conviction that's now in question with these proceedings.

    "All we're interested in here is did he retrieve effective counsel concerning the conviction phase, the guilt innocence phase," Norman said. "The guilt-innocence phase of a capital murder case is really no different than any other murder case."

    "In this case there's overwhelming evidence Mr. Hatten is responsible, is guilty in the murder of Issac (Jackson)."

    In regard to Hatten taking the stand to testify, Norman argued that choice is ultimately the defendant's to make. He suggested that was a necessary tactic for the defense at the time to try and get a reduced charge.

    HATTEN’S LETTERS

    Throughout the appeal process, Hatten has written dozens of letters to the 347th District Court that are available through public records.

    In some of the rambling letters he asks for an execution to go forward.

    "I have had two execution dates, and I hear the third time is the charm," he wrote in one.

    The average time most people are on death row before their execution is about 11 years, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Hatten has been on death row for 23.

    Hatten is among 65 inmates who have been on death row for more than 20 years, according to the Texas Tribune.

    Only two other offenders from Nueces County are on death row: John Henry Ramirez, who has been there for 10 years, and Richard Vasquez, who has been there for 19.

    The most recent filed with the court is postmarked March 1.

    "Motion: calling for execution" is scrawled across the center of the blank white sheet of paper in print handwriting.

    "Dear. Hon. Judge Medary, It's Larry Hatten, death row inmate, and defending my family is what I'll gladly die for any day and any time," it reads. "And if you are human, as well as your cohorts who have set me two execution dates, I want execution because I do not want to be a human then."

    "Good fashion, Larry Hatten," the letter closes, his signature in cursive.

    The letters are often written in the style of legal motions.

    Hatten expresses a lack of faith in the legal system in the letters. He also asks for things like a new attorney and maintains he never saw Jackson at the time of the shooting.

    Hatten has long penned letters related to his case. On Feb. 1, 2016, he wrote a letter stating he wished to go forward with his execution. Weeks later he wrote another letter saying he changed his mind.

    https://www.caller.com/story/news/cr...ow/3235358002/
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    ARTICLE 11.071 APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS DENIED/DISMISSED WITH WRITTEN ORDER:

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    Can we finally expect an execution date for him this year? Nueces DA got a date twice for John Ramirez in the last 12 Months but this guy is still alive?

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    Don't expect any serious dates this year.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Larry Hatten is filing motions requesting to be executed with a pace of at least one per month. Let's hope new Nueces County DA Jimmy Granberry grants his wish.

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    Yeah and his motions have the most hilarious titles. I’m still cracking up at Where is Thy Sting?
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